Sorted by Topic: Healthcare

All is not well in the world of General Practice.  A year on from being surprised, and then opposed, to the Government’s NHS reforms attention is now turning to one of the more explicit policies in the Coalition Agreement, – …Read Post »

“This whole strategy is just worthless, regurgitated, patronising rubbish.” This damning judgment of Andrew Lansley’s recent plan to curb the UK’s obesity problems comes from Jamie Oliver, the international poster-boy of responsible, healthy-eating. The Health Secretary’s ‘call to action’ includes …Read Post »

Quite why anyone should be surprised by today’s report from the CQC is beyond me. Alarmed yes, but surprised, no. The scale of poor care in hospitals across the country is as staggering as it is well documented. Of course …Read Post »

Medicine is full of abbreviations and acronyms – most people are familiar with HIV, CV disease, SAD, and ADHD. What about IPF? Do you know what that is? IPF stands for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. It is a chronic, progressive, severely …Read Post »

Fleishman-Hillard is pleased to announce an evening discussion with City AM Editor Allister Heath on Thursday 13th October from 6pm. The event will be held at our offices at 40 Longacre, Covent Garden. RSVP to emma-louise.barclay@fleishmaneurope.com

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Interesting though it is, the suggestion in today’s Lancet for a fat tax is by no means new.  Back in the 18th Century Adam Smith famously suggested, “Sugar, rum, and tobacco, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which …Read Post »

Figures published today by the Department of Health show that the number of people waiting for NHS care has risen sharply. The good news is that the health service is meeting the NHS Constitution commitment to treat 90 per cent …Read Post »

This morning’s Business Breakfast with the Huffington Post was not just a great success, but also an exclusive; it was their first such event with a communications agency in London. Our thanks to Carla Buzasi (editor-in-chief) and Chris Wimpress (political …Read Post »

If the Conservatives wish to be re-elected in 2015 then a central measure of their electoral prospects will be their record on the NHS.   Curious then was the Prime Minister’s speech on Tuesday on the NHS.   Leaving aside the fact …Read Post »

London PA Corp Senior Policy Advisor Henry Featherstone has taken part in a Guardian live blog to discuss the on/off nature of the Government’s National Health Service reforms.

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